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Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society: Presented January 24, 1839; With an Appendix
Resolved, That it be recommended to such state or other auxiliaries as are dis posed to take the charge ofthe abolition cause within their respective fields, to make arrangements with the Executive Committee of this Society, guaranteeing to our Treasury such stated payments as may be judged reasonable; and then assume with in their own limits the entire direction of lecturers and agents in forming local socie ties, collecting funds, circulating memorials, and establishing libraries; and that this society will not send its agents to labor for these objects in such states as carry out this plan, except in concurrence with the State Executite Committee.' At a subsequent meeting of your Board of Managers, to con sider the expediency of assuming this responsibility, it was, af ter careful deliberation, Resolved, That the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts A nti-slavery Socie ty will undertake the management of the anti-slavery cause, within the State, the eu suing year and that this Board is now ready to enter into an arrangement with the Executive Committee ofthe Parent Society, for this purpose.'
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